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ANCHORAGE — An Iditarod musher injured by a sport utility vehicle that crashed into her team on a training run quickly turned her thoughts to the dogs that had scattered.

From a ditch where she lay with three broken vertebrae, Karin Hendrickson reached for her cellphone, she told the Alaska Dispatch News.

“I just started trying to get ahold of local mushers to say, ‘My dogs are loose and they’re hurt and someone needs to come and get them because I can’t,’ “ she said Thursday from her hospital bed at Providence Alaska Medical Center.

Juneau Karate Academy’s Christy Odum has been promoted to the rank of Black Belt in Nihon Karate Do Shito Ryu, according to a press release from the dojo. Odum has been a longtime student of the discipline, one of the four styles of traditional Japanese karate, and she actively teaches in the local dojo.

Odum underwent a three-week testing process that combines the physical aspect of the art with academics, technical understanding and personal development.